Cosmochoria

Cosmochoria

Fair · Roguelike · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
4.4h 28h to 100%
Value
$2.27/hr
Reviews
87% of 506 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.27/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 58 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A tiny, naked cosmonaut with a jetpack & laser blaster must revive a dying galaxy by planting one seed at a time. An innovative and addictive arcade adventure experience with mystery and intrigue in all the right places.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT/s 4xx or Equivalent, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

42 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 33 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Heat Signature ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).

More about Cosmochoria

HowLongToBeat players log 4.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 28, 6.4 times as much.

The drop-off

78% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Incredibly fun, but it's been crashing lately far into a run. That's kind of irritating. Still well worth the $1.50 I spent.
DickieRecommendedafter 17hJan 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
The very first thing you'll see upon opening this game is the misaligned UI for the language select screen. Immediately afterwards, you'll realize that every single menu in the game has this problem. Main menu, artifacts, high score, options - none of them have a properly aligned highlighted option. Additionally, the icons on the upgrade screen when you start a subsequent playthrough after your initial one overlap...
dpr75Not recommendedafter 2.1hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Cosmochoria scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/293240/cosmochoria
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNate Schmold
Publisher30/30
GenreRoguelike
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements28